James Lasdun Quotes
- There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
- The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
- For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble.…
- The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel,…
- I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence.…
- There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.